Category: Music

‘That Was Too Many Blunts Ago’

It was the summer of 1992, and Ladybug Mecca, Butterfly, and Doodlebug—collectively known as Digable Planets—were recording their debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), commuting back and forth between Brooklyn and a studio in Jersey. They didn’t know it at the time, but the album’s lead single, “Rebirth of Slick (Cool […]

November 4, 2025
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Anna von Hausswolff Pushes Herself Towards Popular Songwriting on ‘Iconoclasts’

It seemed inevitable that Anna von Hausswolff would make an album inspired by This Mortal Coil, the 4AD collective that covered songs by Gene Clark, Alex Chilton, and more, injecting them with its gothic touch. Iconoclasts, the sixth album by the Swedish musician out October 31, may feel more like conventional music to those accustomed […]

November 3, 2025
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